If you’re new to GUI programming (and wxPython in particular), you may not know what a “book” control is. It may be that other languages call this control something different too. In wxPython, a book control allows the user to switch between various panels. The most common examples are browsers and system option dialogs with […]
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There is a lot of bad code in the world. My objective in this article is to help wxPython programmers learn how to make their applications easier to maintain and modify. It should be noted that what is in this article is not necessarily the so-called “best” way to refactor a program; instead the following
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We had out October Pyowa meeting last night and I thought it was very interesting. We had an executive from a local technology company called Priority5 come out and he told us how he got started with Python and how they use it at his current employer’s. We also had a talk on Optparse, ConfigParser
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The last couple weeks, I’ve seen multiple people ask about resetting the color of a widget back to its original “default” color. There was at least one guy on the wxPython mailing list and another on their IRC channel that requested info on this topic. When I first looked up this issue, it was for
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In this post, I’ll detail how to catch specific key presses and why this can be useful. This is another in my series of “requested” tutorials. There really isn’t much to catching key presses, but it can be a little confusing when one widget behaves slightly differently from another. The really complicated stuff comes in
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I had a request this week to write up a quick tutorial on focus events in wxPython. Fortunately, there’s not a lot of material to cover on this subject, so this should be a pretty quick and dirty little post. I’ll see you after the jump!
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This past couple of weeks, I’ve seen multiple people ask about timers and how they work either on the wxPython mailing list or on their IRC channel. So I decided it was high time I wrote a couple of example scripts to show how they’re used. I will cover two examples, the first of which
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Last month I found some issues with the TurboGears 2 documentation and the guys on the TG IRC channel told me I should download the docs and do something about it. Alas, I didn’t know what I was doing, but with their guidance I got the code and it was mostly set up. Then my
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Last week, I embarked on an adventure into the world of web application programming. Since my work place uses Python as much as possible and my boss likes TurboGears, I chose it for this endeavor. I have worked through various TurboGears tutorials and thought it looked pretty cool. However, it doesn’t take long to discover
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I received Ayman Hourieh’s Django 1.0 Web Site Development from Packt Publishers a few weeks ago for review. I had worked with Django before when I went through another book on Python web frameworks as well as one of their official tutorials. I had my doubts about this book because it was only 257 pages
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This month, I finished uploading the videos I had recorded for May’s Pyowa meeting. I thought it would be relatively easy to do some recording and uploading, but I think I made it harder than I needed when I bought an HD camera. Here’s my story of how I go about recording our meetings right
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After Pycon was over, I contacted the people on the python group organizers mailing list to see how to get contacts from publishers in the hopes of gathering contacts and acquiring some swag for the Iowa Python Users Group (AKA Pyowa) meetings.
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Now that I’ve covered the major stuff that I went to at PyCon 2009, I thought I should write a quick note about the other stuff I saw and did. I already mentioned going to the Open Space for Authors and Editors and the wxPython BoF, so I won’t rehash those here.
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On Sunday, I went to the morning lightning talks a little late. None of them really jumped out at me as I was distracted by updating this blog and trying to update myself on other things. I’m sure I missed out on some good stuff, though. What I didn’t miss was the Reddit keynote.
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From 4-5:15, Steve Holden held a Teach Me Web Testing Open Space session in which he set up his laptop and a projector, loaded his website, put some whiskey and vodka out on a table and then asked the crowd to teach him how to test his website using tools written in Python.
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